Re: Quick RegEx Question

Jon Jacob wrote: > Jeff Oien wrote: > > > I want to check if a variable contains a price, like > > $19.99 > > It definitely would be a dollar sign, two integers a dot and > > two integers. Here is what I tried which doesn't work. > > > > if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2}).([0-9]{2})", $Price)) > > or > > if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2})\.([0-9]{2})", $Price)) > > > > Thanks. > > Jeff Oien > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > I am not an expert on PHP but I have been programming in Perl for four > years so I can tell you what I would use in Perl and you can see if that > works in PHP. (I am almost sure they would be the same...) > > /\$\d\d\.\d\d\.d/ > > It looks to me like you are forgetting to escape your period making the > interpreter think it is "any character" rather than a literal period. I am > not sure what the {2} is because I have never used that. Does that part of > it really work that way? > > Good luck, hope that helps. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net Opps. I mistyped that. It should be: /\$\d\d\.\d\d/ Drop the last d. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com